Looks like you're right (just saw a 100k+ account in Teh Vestibule and they still only have the toxic waste symbol), which is a shame because it now renders reaching 100k pointless. So if this is how it will remain permanently, then 40k will become the new holy grail lifetime post count achievement for these boards.

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Reaching 100k never had a point to begin with.

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Was there ever an additional icon for reaching 100k? I can't quite recall. Was it the radioactive symbol you've got now?

Looks like you're right (just saw a 100k+ account in Teh Vestibule and they still only have the toxic waste symbol), which is a shame because it now renders reaching 100k pointless. So if this is how it will remain permanently, then 40k will become the new holy grail lifetime post count achievement for these boards.

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Reaching 100k never had a point to begin with.

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Was there ever an additional icon for reaching 100k? I can't quite recall. Was it the radioactive symbol you've got now?

God damn it you guys!! Why can't the Wii U be out now? I'm sitting here with a crappy school laptop and a PS3 with a broken blu-ray player. I get paid on Friday and want to buy a 360 but I could just use that money towards more Wii U stuff. UGH!

God damn it you guys!! Why can't the Wii U be out now? I'm sitting here with a crappy school laptop and a PS3 with a broken blu-ray player. I get paid on Friday and want to buy a 360 but I could just use that money towards more Wii U stuff. UGH!

I can't go on like this, not gaming. NHL 13 is my only salvation.

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Have you tried to fix it? If I were you I'd buy a broken PS3 on eBay (they sale for like $10) and put it's blu-ray player into your PS3.

God damn it you guys!! Why can't the Wii U be out now? I'm sitting here with a crappy school laptop and a PS3 with a broken blu-ray player. I get paid on Friday and want to buy a 360 but I could just use that money towards more Wii U stuff. UGH!

I can't go on like this, not gaming. NHL 13 is my only salvation.

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Have you tried to fix it? If I were you I'd buy a broken PS3 on eBay (they sale for like $10) and put it's blu-ray player into your PS3.

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No I really should open it and check it out, I just feel like I'm over the PS3 this generation. I have so many damn trophies tho (well 1.2k not a ton compared to some but I like my collection)

I just feel like an xbox for some reason but I know the smart choice would be to keep the cash for more Wii U stuff. SIGH!

I wish the star system was now based on likes instead. Would give users motivation to make more meaningful posts, even if it would bring some circlejerk "Like my post" threads. Instead, we're just going to have a bunch of +1 threads now, with no benefit to balance it out.

Or alternatively, perhaps also have the like count directly below the message count instead of only being able to see total like count via clicking a username and having that pop-up appear to check the total like count of a user, which in effect would like a rep system that some boards have minus the green/red bar.

I wish the star system was now based on likes instead. Would give users motivation to make more meaningful posts, even if it would bring some circlejerk "Like my post" threads. Instead, we're just going to have a bunch of +1 threads now, with no benefit to balance it out.

I wish the star system was now based on likes instead. Would give users motivation to make more meaningful posts, even if it would bring some circlejerk "Like my post" threads. Instead, we're just going to have a bunch of +1 threads now, with no benefit to balance it out.

Well, all my school work due through next Thursday is done, save one assignment where the professor hasn't put up directions yet. Ready to go home for the first time since school started for a stress-free 3 day weekend.

Jumped into a match of Melee with my roommate and a couple of the guys from the rooms around us, first match I've played with them. We brought each other down perfectly to 1 life each at 0%. Epic fight ensued, and then I delivered a killing blow to all three of them within like 5 seconds. Walked out straight afterward all nonchalant.

I refuse to believe the world will end this December. There's just too much that needs to happen in 2013.

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If the aliens or ancient giant... thingys do come, they'll probably just wipe us out and not the whole planet. You can take solace in that... I mean, we're the problems, not the rest of the beings here, yeah?

I wish the star system was now based on likes instead. Would give users motivation to make more meaningful posts, even if it would bring some circlejerk "Like my post" threads. Instead, we're just going to have a bunch of +1 threads now, with no benefit to balance it out.

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Or drive them to post even MOAR animated gifs. The site would be gif orgy after gif orgy 0_o

And I find it somewhat disheartening that it takes likes to motivate a person to be semi intelligible on the internet.

Think I can fit a PS3 + at least 3 games in there? Maybe a Xbox 360 to..... This is going to be an awesome challenge, and only 2 months to make a plan

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Why not spend it on WiiU games and accesories? Also, it has been scientifically proven that money not given directly to me is money thrown down the drain.

Anyways, if you insist on being selfish and spending your money on yourself and not giving it to me, I'd say a PS2. I personally don't think that many N64 games have aged well, and the ones that have, have been re-released (or had better sequels). I'd say get a PS2. You could probably get one for less than $50, and some of the best games I'm sure you can find for around $20. Granted, I'm not a conoisseur of fine PS2 gaming, so don't ask me to recomend you any games

Jumped into a match of Melee with my roommate and a couple of the guys from the rooms around us, first match I've played with them. We brought each other down perfectly to 1 life each at 0%. Epic fight ensued, and then I delivered a killing blow to all three of them within like 5 seconds. Walked out straight afterward all nonchalant.

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Please tell me you were wearing your mlp portal t-shirt
That'd really show them how much of a boss you were

And I find it somewhat disheartening that it takes likes to motivate a person to be semi intelligible on the internet.

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I think it's a truth of people in general, though. They work based on what system they find themselves on, and sure they strive to do things well, but they only do this in the context of their current system.

I guess the way I can explain this mumbo jumbo in my head is that, if you give people a crappy system in which being sleazy is advantageous and even encouraged, they will gladly be sleazy. If you give them a system that works within the kind of boundaries that don't encourage sleaziness but instead encourage honesty and integrity, then they will gladly be honest and integrous. I think people in general are only as good or bad as the system they are put in, that is except for those few that realize this and can judge themselves on contexts other than their actual ones (like you right now, realizing that people should strive to be intelligent and meaningful even when the system doesn't support it strongly).

So basically, if IGN focused more on the like system than on the post count system, people would strive more for quality over quantity, and even if that means more animated gifs, that's fine because that s***'s funny and meaningful to people here.

Maybe this is more draconian, but I think there should also be a "dislike" system. We need a way to actually laugh the trolls and awful posters out the door, and to have new posters discouraged from making awful posts. Hell, as far as I know there are many boards that already have this "reputation" system. Like I said in some post somewhere, IGN's TOS is practically the old testament of message forums, with all its outdated rules.

The SomethingAwful forums are pretty hardcore about their rules, actually, and they have a pretty healthy totalitarian regime community because of it. First of all, you have to pay like $5 to register, which keeps spam and alt accounts out for the most part, and also discourages trolling as it actually might cost you your paid-for membership. Then, you can get banned for making any kind of vacuous, bileful, or otherwise crappy post, always to the mods' consideration and discretion of course. I don't want to look up their TOS right now for other ways in which they maintain order, but they are really effective about it without removing the forum's awesomeness and creativity.

So of course I don't think IGN would be able to ever maintain forums like that, but we definitely need better rules and systems than what we have now.

And I find it somewhat disheartening that it takes likes to motivate a person to be semi intelligible on the internet.

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I think it's a truth of people in general, though. They work based on what system they find themselves on, and sure they strive to do things well, but they only do this in the context of their current system.

I guess the way I can explain this mumbo jumbo in my head is that, if you give people a crappy system in which being sleazy is advantageous and even encouraged, they will gladly be sleazy. If you give them a system that works within the kind of boundaries that don't encourage sleaziness but instead encourage honesty and integrity, then they will gladly be honest and integrous. I think people in general are only as good or bad as the system they are put in, that is except for those few that realize this and can judge themselves on contexts other than their actual ones (like you right now, realizing that people should strive to be intelligent and meaningful even when the system doesn't support it strongly).

So basically, if IGN focused more on the like system than on the post count system, people would strive more for quality over quantity, and even if that means more animated gifs, that's fine because that s***'s funny and meaningful to people here.

Maybe this is more draconian, but I think there should also be a "dislike" system. We need a way to actually laugh the trolls and awful posters out the door, and to have new posters discouraged from making awful posts. Hell, as far as I know there are many boards that already have this "reputation" system. Like I said in some post somewhere, IGN's TOS is practically the old testament of message forums, with all its outdated rules.

The SomethingAwful forums are pretty hardcore about their rules, actually, and they have a pretty healthy totalitarian regime community because of it. First of all, you have to pay like $5 to register, which keeps spam and alt accounts out for the most part, and also discourages trolling as it actually might cost you your paid-for membership. Then, you can get banned for making any kind of vacuous, bileful, or otherwise crappy post, always to the mods' consideration and discretion of course. I don't want to look up their TOS right now for other ways in which they maintain order, but they are really effective about it without removing the forum's awesomeness and creativity.

So of course I don't think IGN would be able to ever maintain forums like that, but we definitely need better rules and systems than what we have now.

/rant against crappy TOS

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While we're ont he matter of gifs, could you help me find that one you posted of the man whi jumps into a lake but shoots off like a rocket before touching the water. It was probably the most random and funniest gif I've ever seen.

I can agree with your first point, but don't want to get into a discussion on conditioning as the whole nature vs. nurture debate gives me a headache =P

And a dislikes system could be disastrous if poorly handled. Left unchecked, trolls could just dislike bomb your ass. Or more commonly, I can see people disliking comments simply for expressing disenting opinions, regardles of how well reasoned they are. For example, here on the WiiU boards Zach something or other(I forget his screen name) usually defends Sony, and will usually give them more credit than they've been recieving from everyone else in the thread. I can name three seperate occasions where he has been called out as a troll and/or a fanboy (by board regulars no less), even though he is one of the more well reasoned posters here IMO.

As for the ToS, I think it should remain as is (save for some minor cahnges here and there), but mods should be alowed to act upon their own discretion as to whether or not something is truly worth modding/banning.

While we're ont he matter of gifs, could you help me find that one you posted of the man whi jumps into a lake but shoots off like a rocket before touching the water. It was probably the most random and funniest gif I've ever seen.